Roll Collection

Rock and roll dancing couple

bronco, toilet, paper, advertisement

Rock N Roll Dance
Rock and roll enthusiasts, dressed in 1950s clothes, including DA hairstyles, Teddy Boy jackets and spotted dresses which swirl to reveal stocking-tops!

Rock n Roll Dancing
Two young things in full 1950s attire, partake in a bit of Rock n Roll dancing

Coat & Fox Terrier 1927
Wrap over coat in a small checked fabric with cuff detail, hip pockets, long fur roll collar & fur lining worn with court shoes & a cloche hat pulled over the eyes

Masters of Malvern College
Illustration by Fred May showing the Headmaster of Malvern College, Mr Frank S. Preston, taking a roll-call of some of his staff. Malvern College is an independent school in Worcestershire, England

Mabel Lucie Attwell - Wait Til the Cars Roll By Jinnie Date: 1939

The Old Man and the Sea
Illustration by Raymond Sheppard to The Old Man and the Sea - a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951

Men of the Black Watch in French village, WW1
Men of the Black Watch regiment in a French village near the Western Front during World War One. They are taking part in a roll call before going into action. Date: circa 1916

Veiled Egyptian Woman - Cairo. Date: circa 1910s

Japanese girl practising calligraphy Date: 1909

How Pianola Works 1912
How the player-piano works - air passes through the holes in the piano-roll and acts on the bellows mechanism, causing a hammer to strike a key

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - ponies
Michael the pony enjoying a roll in the snow near his stables on Antarctica, during the ill-fated Scott polar expedition 1910 - 1912. Captain Scott wrote of the ponies in his diary, Poor brutes

Paddling on Blackheath
Children roll up their trouser legs and go paddling in the ponds on Blackheath London

Men Evening Dress 1893
Three variations of evening dress for 1893-4: dress tail coats with roll collar or step collar & a dress jacket. One man wears a black waistcoat & pumps the others wear white

Have you answered the Red Cross Christmas roll call?. Poster showing a Red Cross nurse in a cloak, extending her hand, as soldiers march behind with an American flag. Date c1918

Bathing a Dog
A lucky dog getting a shower in a roll-top bath!

Rock and roll dancing couple. Date: 1960s

Young people at a Rock and Roll dance, Cornwall. Date: 1985

First day of the Somme - the roll call after attack
British soldiers in a trench on the first day of the Somme (1 July 1916), lining up for a roll call after the attack. 1916

Drunk Stockbroker - confused by toilet roll
Drunk Stockbroker - confused by a toilet roll, which he takes to be the ticker tape! (which would have provided him with the latest market prices). Date: circa 1910s

Rock N Rollers
Rock and roll enthusiasts, dressed in 1950s clothes, including DA hairstyles, Teddy Boy jackets and spotted dresses which swirl to reveal stocking-tops!

Miami Poltergeist Case
Julio Vasquez, focal point of poltergeist outbreak in the store-room of a store at Miami, Florida, investigated by William Roll

Man & Quizzing Glass
Blue cravat, tartan under- waistcoat, D-B waistcoat with pointed front, grey woollen pantaloons, brown frock coat: gigot sleeves, black lining, roll collar & lapels

Riding Habits 1834
Riding habits. Woman: imbecile sleeves, embroidered canezou, cravat & top hat. Boy: pantaloons, waistcoat with a roll collar, short jacket with gigot sleeves, ruff

Roll of Honour. Commemorative Art
Roll of Honour of 18158 Private F G Outlaw, Z Company, 6th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, including photograph. Commemorative Art

London Trade Card - James Wheeley, Paper Hanging warehouse, opposite the church in Little Britain. 18th century

Bill at Harrow School
Bill or call-over is a compulsory roll call, held in each House at Harrow School three times a day. Date: circa 1920s

In Memoriam - scene in Tewkesbury Abbey, WW1
A lone woman stands alone in front of a roll of honour, with the Union flag hanging over it inside Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire during the First World War. Date: 1919

Chuck Berry on Stage
Chuck Berry was a founding father of rock & roll music; one of its greatest singers, songwriters and performers, without whom popular music would be very different

Silk Topper & Crop 1824
Tall silk top hat, pink striped English cravat, single-breasted brown frock coat with roll collar, yellow waistcoat, white strapped trousers & riding crop

Advert for Geo. Whight & Co, musical Celestina 1885 Advert for Geo
Mechanical musical instrument, you could buy the music separate quite cheaply so compact that it could be put in your pocket, with thousands of tunes, psalm, march or dance. Date: 1885

Esmond as Touchstone
HARRY VERNON ESMOND English actor in the roll of Touchstone in Shakespeares As You Like It

Paris fashions for November, 1864
A selection of dresses designed for the winter of 1864. From left, The manteau marchesa made from cloth and velvet, trimmed with a silk border

Male Type / Traveller 1922
Happy chap in a cosy double- breasted overcoat lined in opossum & with a fur roll collar, also a flat cap, narrow trousers with turn-ups, spats & gloves

Lieutenant Eyre Massey Shaw
Portrait of Lt. Eyre Massey Shaw of the Middlesex Regiment. The son of Captain B. Shaw and the grandson of the late Eyre Massey Shaw, he was killed on 30 July 1916 during World War I

Roll Up, Roll Up / Fair
A large crowd gathers round to look at the sideshows

Arthur Bourchier / Vf 1896
Black tailcoat & trousers, white waistcoat with roll collar & cut low revealing an expanse of shirt front, stand collar & white tie, gold watch chain & orchid buttonhole

Coat / Brandenbourg Trim
Hat with spreading crown, white cravat, brown coat with Brandenbourg trim & roll collar, strapped pantaloons, red under-waistcoat, black & yellow waistcoat

Looking at the Roll of Captains - Royal Wimbledon Golf Club
Looking at the Roll of Captains: Lady Golfers of the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club looking at The Roll of Captains in the new Clubhouse extension. Date: 1932

Kodak compact folding camera with roll film. Date: 1904

No. 1 Roll Film Little Nipper Camera Date: 1902

Couplings by Standage Power Couplings Ltd
Standage Patent Universal Couplings for Super Calender Paper Mills - similar Universal Couplings installed on Press Roll Drives, Rolling Mills, Diesel Locos and Rail Cars. Date: circa 1930s

SELO - The Fast Film - Roll Film and Print Wallet
SELO - The Fast Film - Orthochromatic Anti-curling camera film - Illingworth's Roll Film and Print Wallet. Date: circa 1920s

SELO - The Fast Film - Roll Film and Print Wallet. Date: circa 1920s

Chevalier Desseasau, remarkable for his vanity, died 1775

Comic postcard, Woman buying material in a shop Date: 20th century

Swiss coats of arms, c. 1340. Chromolithograph by A. Graeter from Die Wappenrolle von Zurich, The Zurich Armorial, Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zurich, 1860

A man carrying a huge roll of heavy material on his back
A man stoops almost double as he carries a huge roll of heavy material on his back. Even under the weight he moves quickly through the back streets of Istanbul, Turkey 1984

WW1 - Officer in the Roll of Honour - Major S. M. Bruce, Indian Cavalry (37th Lancers). Third son of the late Colonel Edward Bruce, 19th Lancers, " Fanes Horse, " and of Mrs

Comic postcard, Two shop assistants Date: 20th century

Seaforth Highlanders roll call after opening battle on the Somme

Seaforth Highlanders roll call after the opening battle on the Somme

RMS Titanic, display signs, exhibition, National Maritime Mu
RMS TITANIC: A rare collection of display signs used at National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, SE London in 1994, The Wreck of the Titanic Exhibition, various sizes. Date: 1994

Roll out the barrel, cartoon gardener rolling lawn, with music playing from a neighbour's house, as if in mockery of the man's efforts

The Victory Parade Selection
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Victory Parade Selection, comprising of songs including When The Guards Are marching On Parade, Were Gonna Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Line

The Art Seller, Street Cries of Vienna Date: 1775

Selection of Player's Tobacco and Cigar Packets
A selection of Player's Tobacco and Cigar Packets, Packaging and Tins Date: 20th century

Poster, Collins Music Hall, Islington Green, London
Poster for Collins Music Hall, Islington Green, London - Continental Strip Queens, Glamour Stars, week commencing 18 November 1957. Date: 1957

Heal and Son Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Heal & Son curtain fabrics, showing a woman wearing a patterned costume, holding up a curtain roll which has a repetitive design of exotic birds. Date: circa 1915

Heal's Shop Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Heal's Shop in London, promoting hand printed linens, chintzes and cretonnes

A Big Order, Measuring Mr Jumbo for a New Suit Date: 1930

Master Mills the Miller's Son

Recruitment poster, Roll of Honour, WW1
Recruitment poster, Roll of Honour, Doing Duty From Here for King and Country - Are You Doing Yours? God Save the King. Date: 1914

Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N6715A
Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N671SA (msn 67001), at the SBAC Farnborough Airshow, held between 1-8 September 1974

London Brighton South Coast Railway Roll Honour
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British soldiers being gassed at Ypres. WWI
How the gas devil comes - Thick green mist came rolling towards the parapet On the 22nd April 1915 at Ypres, the Germans used poisonous chlorine gas for the first time

Burmese women rolling leaf tobacco into cigars. Date: 1908

A ROLL OF THE DICE
The die is cast... Date: 1960s

Comic postcard, I m living in style here - a toilet roll made of ten shilling notes - clearly pre-decimalisation! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman dancing with donkey on beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man rushing to find a toilet Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman buying underwear in a shop Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man sleeping in toilet at seaside hotel Date: 20th century

Fred Hoddinot, Berwick Street Market, London
Fred Hoddinot of Borovick Fabrics at his stall in Berwick Street Market, London. Date: 1957

Barges on the River Thames at Woolwich, SE London, one carrying rolls of newsprint. Date: circa 1960s

Trades in Regency England: Spar ornaments, pottery ware and salt refiner

Drying and rolling the green tea, China. (3 of 4) Date: 1832

Rolling up the floor covering at the London Hippodrome
Illustration showing stage hands quickly rolling up the floor covering of the arena at the London Hippodrome

Woman from Cairo - Veiled Date: circa 1908

The Most Brilliant Fourth of June at Eton, 1911
Double page spread from The Sphere reporting on the traditional Fourth of June celebrations at Eton College where parents and siblings assemble at the school for speeches, food

Swiss flags of bishoprics, c1340
Swiss flags of bishoprics, c. 1340. Chromolithograph by A. Graeter from Die Wappenrolle von Zurich, The Zurich Armorial, Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zurich, 1860

St. Guthlac is ordained by Bishop Headda of Lichfield
St. Guthlac of Crowland (673-714) is ordained by Bishop Headda of Lichfield. From the Guthlac Roll

Women doing wartime work at a factory, WW1
Women doing wartime work at a factory where margarine is being made to save on butter, WW1. 1914-1918

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